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o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON . MEDFORDjTRIBUNI "Evoryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" -. PSTlshed DnllJ except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph SP ljtll '' ""ROBERT W RUHL, Editor 1 HERB GREY Advel -Using Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Mn; Edltol EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHlPMAtJTeieg Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's djtor DALE JCKllJftaur irtuw'i An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ".' Uy Mail - In Advanoe. Copy 100 ' Dally and Sunday 1 year S15 00 Dally and Sunday 0 mot "on Dally and Sunday 3 moi i 4 2S ;. Sunday Only One vear 14.20 " By Carrier In Advance Med'ord - Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold HIM ;.. Phoenix. 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The Medford city council last night reaffirmed Us deci sion not to endorse anti-firecracker legislation now before the state legislature. 20 YEARS AGO VJan. 24, 1941 (Friday) The southern Oregon-northern California region was defi nitely listed today as the num ber one crash site possibility for a missing U.S. Army bomber carrying seven men. Frnm Arthur Perrv'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Some of the statesmen in session at Salem, are also trying lo be comedians, and not getting way with that role either." 30 YEARS AGO 1 Jan. 24, 1931 (Saturday) An Ashland city, police of " fleer was shot and killed last ; night when attempting to halt ; a stolen car; the suspected ' killer was apprehended an .' hour later. i A suvey shows that the ; average farmer In the Rogue ' valley has been here for more than 11 years. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1921 (Monday) A bill has been introduced In the slate legislature to close all movie theaters In tlie state on Sundays. The Jackson County Farm bureau has started a drive for new members. ' SO YEARS AGO ; Jan.. 24, 1911 (Tuesday) '.-.Jackson county spent a to tal of $103,777 to build and improve county roads during 1010. The recent destruction of an uncompleted bridge across Bear creek near Central Point by high water has cost the taxpayers of the county more than $8,500. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ei Ian correct is sueerlan seven et eight Is eacellenfi Nve ei lia Is good. - 1. Is a minaret the name of a dance or a lofty tower at tached to a mosque? 2. The efforts of The March of Dimes are now directed to what? 3. If some one offers you some smear case, would you be able lo wear it or cat it? 4. Sister Elizabeth Kenny is most noted for her method of treating what? " 5. Did the famous Chicago fire occur bcfoie or after the War Between the States? 6. The first State in the Un ion to grant woman suffrage is nicknamed the Equality State; name it. 7. Is gladioli or gladioluses the plural of gladiolus? . 8. The "Davy Crockett" Is a new portable atomic weapon; does It belong to the Army, Navy or Air Force? : 9. Upon graduation, the U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are commissioned In what rank? i 10. Name the new Secretary .0 the Navy. J Answers: 1. Lofty lower. 2, Fighting several crippling dis eases. 3. Eat it (cottage cheese). 4, Polio. 5. After (1871). 8. Wyoming, 7. Both. 8. Army. 9. Ensigns. 10. John B. Connelly. tSi Miller on We have been highly critical of the county court (and, by implication, of Judge ban Miller) in the past. But there's one thinir is a man of courage, intetrritv and determination When he makes up his right, he sticks with it, no And there are two agree with him 100 per cent. One is the crucial need for a reorganization of county government thority. The other is the big, and rapidly increasing, need for county planning with teeth in it, and for zoning to put the plans into effect. 1VIILLER has never made any secret of the fact that he favors home in circumstances where signed to make him the year. And, despite widespread misunderstanding of planning and zoning, he insistence that the only future is to plan for it, and the only way to pro tect existing property rights is to set up safe guards through planning and zoning. Thus, while we have disagreed with some of his decisions in the past, and have wished for a more aggressive and forward-looking county court, we must qualify that by these remarks, and tip our hat to Judge Miller in the process. is. A. Opposite Effect The thoughts voiced above were motivated by Judge Miller s appearance at the meeting in Eagle Point the other night, when the Medco railroad truck road proposal was discussed. At that time he stated that adequate planning and zoning ordinances would be of help in mak ing sure that no one is penalized by new devel opment resulting from improved technologies or from the sheer increase in population. As it is, the county has little if any effective power in acting to protect residents from such new developments. DLANNING and zoning,- unhappily, are prob 1 ably the most misunderstood governmental processes in the county today even more mis understood than the process or taxation. People, particularly rural people, tend to dis trust planning and zoning, thinking of them in terms of "dictatorship," and "no one can tell me what I can or can't do with my own property." This sort of reaction completely misses the point which is that planning and zoning provide protection for EXISTING developments, and only regulate changes, many of which pose threats to the status quo. IF THIS truth were once well understood, the planning and zoning would be overwhelmingly approved in the county, as they are now in the city of Medford. They provide an orderly, legal safeguard, for existing property values. And if population keeps increasing, and light industry and commercial developments growing at their present pace, valley people will come to demand the protec tion they afford, rather than decrying them as unwarranted interference with their rights. The first attempt at county planning and zon ing was made in 1948. Now, almost 13 years later, we have made progress but not enough. FOUR years ago a planning commission was r appointed. It has developed a subdivision code, which is almost complete but not yet ready for adoption. Two areas have been zoned by petition of the residents people who have finally come to realize the. protection provided by zoning. A county building code is nearly completed. Land use maps of the floor of the valley are completed and some of the population density maps. These are basic tools necessary for intelli gent and forward-looking planning. HTHE commission is now using the land use maps to develop a general classification develop ment program for zoning regulations regula tions which would protect existing values, and spell out in clear-cut terms just what new develop ments can be permitted in particular areas. But this work is all preliminary, and the plan ning commission still needs the trust and coop eration of the residents to put the safeguards of planning and zoning into effect. It's been a long time past time that the peo ple of the rural areas came to the realization that these procedures would have almost exactly the opposite effect of the one they fear. E. A. Pressure Mounting One hopes the Oregon legislature will have the backbone to resist the mounting pressure on it to convert itself into a 90-member highway commission, float unspecified millions of dollar's worth of highway bonds for the benefit of one part of the state, and change the present high way commission into a five-member group sus ceptible to regional pressures. This, would be a rejection of the program which has given Oregon just about the best nigh way department, and system, in the nation, with allocation of funds on a fair and equitable for mula. It would be a long, legislature succumbs. Planning about Earl Miller he mind that something is matter what. things about which we and more home rule au rule, and has stated so that statement was not de most popular man of the has been steadfast in his way to be ready for the sad stejbackward if the E. A. Dennis the I didn't think you'o heap me. 1 put oocc in iHt rosy Matter of Fact THE NEW STYLE Washington - It was the night of the "inaugural snow storm." as the weathermen are said to call that dis rupting bliz- "zard. The quiet street DianKei- M e a, sound ly 4LU proofed, a 1 1 4 but choked with snow. All through the evening, Aliop Robert Frost had been buoyed up by his own gaiety and the stimulus of admiration. But now, as the venerable poet prepared to plunge into the blizzard for the drive home, his strength quite suddenly failed him, as their Strength will sometimes fail all men of 87. For help, he turned to his close friend and host, Presi dent Kennedy's new secre tary of the interior, Stewart Lee Udall, who is himself something of a poet of nature. Into the white darkness of the street, the young man sup ported, all but carried the old man, sustaining him not just with a strong shoulder and a strong arm, but also with the strength of his reverent affec tion. It was a scene to remem ber, if only because it was so wonderfully unlike the cus tomary scenes of political Washington. fTlHE backdrop of scene two was equally dramatic - the wide balcony jampacked with grandees' boxes at the inaugu ral ball in the armory. John F. Kennedy and his beautiful young wife had just made their entrance, so the whole vast room was watching. From one end of the balcony to the other, there were peo ple in the boxes whom Ken nedy wished to welcome, but the crowd made the passage ways absolutely impassable. Quite unconcerned, the new President of the United States began leaping from box to box with the easy agility of a mountain goat. It was a creditable performance for a man of 43. But what made this scene memorable were the expressions of absolute horror, of open consternation, on the faces of the secret serv ice men, who were by no moans used to Imitating moun tain goats yet were forced to follow their charge as best they could. These memories of the in augural week in Washington, in themselves trifling, also help to make a point which is not trifling. The point Is that the new President and his new administration have a style of their own, quite new in American politics, which will delight some people, an noy other people, and aston ish just about everyone until its style becomes familiar. ALL American administra tions have their own si'-'es. which are almost Invariably Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF SOME TIME AGO, recalls Critic George Oppenheimer, "a ham actor decided to revive 'The Jest' with himself in the role created by John Barrymore. Unfortunately, the ham weighed about 210 pounds on the hoof, and when he donned tho tights called for by tha part, he was quite a sight, fore and aft. "When he strode upon the stage for the opening performance, and struck, a typical Barrymore pose, there was a moment of deep silence in the thea tre. That was interrupted by an. irreverent soul In tho balcony. 'My God! ho shouted, 'It's llicl!' " A letter calling attention to an ovonhis bill must be good to b read. It must bo more than good to spur delinquents into reaching for their check books. Here's one that produced really spectacular results for an upstate daily products company: "Dear Sir: It has been said that a man who squceiea a dollar, never squeezes his wife In looking over your account, it occurs to us that your wife cannot be getting the attention stt dswnm Retry, etc etc" ( K 0 Menace end ' By Joseph Alsop set by the President. Consider for instance the vast change of style that occurred when the infinitely ' staid William McKinley died, and Theodore Roosevelt took over the White House. The chief ingredients of the first Roosevelt's style were his boldness, his strong his toric imagination, his pictur esquely strenuous way of life. his liking for the company of thinkers and learned men and of course, his teeth and his eyeglasses. And that style con tributed, in an indirect but not inconsiderable way. to Ihe chief event of the first Roose velt Administration, which was America's coming of age as a great power. He behaved like the leader of a great power, and quite suddenly we saw ourselves as a great power and the world saw us that way, too. The Kennedy style, if one may hazard a guess, will be nearer to the first Roosevelt's style than to any other White House style of the past. At any rate, Kennedy oddly re sembles the first Roosevelt in at least one infinitely reveal ing way. He is snobbish about the same things, which make an odd but not unimpressive list. T IKE TR, he is a physical fitness-snob. All Kennedys have this singular trait. Like TR, he is also a courage-snob It is not customary, any long er, to give much weight to whether another man has "had a good war," as the British put it. But this weighs with Kennedy as it weighed with the first Roosevelt, whose example inspired his oldest son to win the Medal of Honor on the blood-drenched Normandy beaches. Finally, Kennedy once again resembles TR is being an experience-snob - m want ing what he docs and what happens to him to be vivid, intense and, above all, mean ingful, rather than cozy and average and humdrum. The instinct that drove Theodore Roosevelt to undertake his last journey to the sources of the Amazon, which killed him, is also quite visibly present in Kennedy. Why Roosevelt had these three kinds of snobism, why Kennedy now has them, is an interesting subject of specula tion. They were not common elements in average Ameri can success stories, even in TR's time, and they most cer tainly are not common ele ments in our success stories of today. In TR's case, they gave the man a personal style so singular, so unaccustomed that the whole country gog gled - and was then delighted. But one must wait and see what they will do in Ken nedy's case. Whatever the re sult, It should at least be In teresting. (Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Communications Letter to tha Editor must bear th name and address of the writer although undei eer tain circumstances the use ol a pen name oi Initial for publica Uon is oermisslble The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmittea ior publica Uon must not exceed 400 words Voice of a Lamb To the Editor: It is good to find the time to join com munications again. This part of the daily paper is read with interest. I would not fear to make a broad statement that it is also enjoyed, being more or less of a cryptic writ er that speaks with the voice of a lamb. To my own particu lar understanding this voice comes naturally, and being a crusader for the Townsend Plan, I have noted that the most true believers, the most loyal of our ranks, are the ones that are oldest in senior ity, oldest in years. Why is this? The answer is obvious. They have lived the most part of their lives, they know that time is running out, but here in our fair land will still be the aged, the underprivileged and the op pressed, long after their be loved old hearts are laid to rest. So they put their shoul der to the wheel and speak for what they believe is right with their last breath, and I am proud to join them and not ashamed to let the tears run down should one of them be called away. It is faith such as this that will remove these mountains and cast them into the sea, and I join my faith with theirs. Other organizations that are reaching out to help the old folks to enrich and make happy their last remaining years are doing a good work. I respect and admire them. But if the Townsend organiza tion sees the many millions who need just a little bit more than entertainment and culture, pray do not hold this against us. Ida L. Kelly President of Medford Townsend Club No. 1 1141 Pinecroft ave. Medford. Thanks for Help To the Editor: May I take the privilege of expressing my appreciation to my many friends who came in to help me during my recent illness. I live alone and it takes a time like this to make one realize how many friends one does have. I am unable to thank each individually, but to my friends in Ashland, Grants Pass and Medford who came in to help me and lo the ones who sent cards and their prayers, I want to say a big "Thank you." Clara Eldridge . 607V4 West Second ave. Medford. Varieties of Logic To the Editor: Arnold Eu gene Jenny's dilemma is sad, but his technique is ty pical. His logic screams of pseudo- liberalism thus: The Amer ican Legion booklet comes from Georgia. Georgia is in the South. They have troubles in the South. Therefore the American Legion booklet must be rejected out of hand. No investigation can be justi fied (guilt by association, to be sure!). More Jenny logic: F.P.A. is noted for its communist per sonnel, front activities, party line conformity and tech niques; but this is only by way of association; further more, 250,000 America good American citizens take part in F.P.A.'s Great Decisions program. Therefore, ALL who take part in F.P.A.'s programs are innocent, by association. Whew! Only a true pseudo liberal could do it. Robert J. Howard 828 B West 14th st. Medford. Fitting Tribute To the Editor: We can think of no finer tribute to my old friend, Fred C. Sander, for whom the Inst sad rites are being held today, than the following clipping from the Mail Tribune, Sunday, Aug. 26, 1945: The Meek Inherit The Earth We have given space to two modern prophets recently. Here is a third: "The past two days have been days that will be remem bered for all time. The atomic bomb has suddenly changed our entire lives and will in fluence the future of all man kind. It has suddenly made it obvious to EVERYONE that another war is an im possibility if mankind and the world is to continue to exist. It is no longer possible for us to discuss the merits of world collaboration - it has suddenly become a necessity with no alternative except death and the extinction of the human race. "If we have finally been shocked Into the terrible ne cessity of cooperation, then this terrible weapon is a boon to progress In the world. Tru ly the scientific man has now outstripped the social m a n. Now the social sciences, the science of living with our fellow man, must be devel oped at tremendous speed and O Qo o o Kennedy's Hopes for By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In the general acclaim for President Kennedy's inaugu ration speech, the phrase which partic ularly seemed to catch Euro pean attention was this: "Let us be gin anew. Let us never ne gotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." the mind of the West German government must turn inevitably to the questions of Berlin and di vided Germany. Here, the imagination and the bold new approach to world problems which Europe generally expects of the new U.S. administration will be needed. Both have defied so lution since 1944. Reds Stand Firm In his statement of. Soviet policy earlier this month, Premier Nikita Khrushchev J Newsom In Bonn. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Have you read President Kennedy's inaugural address -in full? If not, you'd better read it. It is a reassuring document. There is nothing nambly pamby about it. It seems to come straight from the shoul der. FOR example, he says: "We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution (which created our nation). . . . Let every na tion know, whether it wish us well or ill, that we shall pay ANY price, bear any bur den, meet any hardship, sup port any friend or oppose any foe in order to assure the sur vivial and sucess of LIB ERTY." If we still have that kind of moral fiber, the challenge of world communism will be met and defeated. It is up to U.S. to prove we have it. HE goes on: "To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyal ty of faithful friends. United, there is little we CANNOT do . . . Divided, there is little we with awe-inspiring thorough ness. We are grossly unpre pared for the task ahead of us, and we can only hope that the people of the world re alize what must be done -and begin at once to do it. "Not a second must be lost. Every teacher, every profes sor, every social worker now has a job that surpasses in importance that of any other man on earth! Now we will see if they are capable of pre serving it. , "The war will be over in a matter of days. To say any thing else at a time such as this would be stupid and un necessary." The first prophecy was by a well known financier, the second was by a scientist, this third one comes from a young man at the front and w a s written a week before Japan surrendered. His name is Cyril Sander, he is an Army sergeant sta tioned on a small island in the Philippines. The letter was written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Sander, Medford, and we are glad to give it space, for by all odds it is to date the best thing on this vitally important sub ject we have seen. -R.W.R. Truly, a worthy son that a father can continue to live in. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Welfare Changes To the Editor: I have been reading your column for some time and enjoyed it very much. Now I think I'd like to air my grievances, namely the Public Welfare Commission. I may be misinformed but it has always been my under standing that our tax dollars, in part, went toward the sup port of this plan. If so-why are women with children in school refused support? We seem to be spending quite a lot on foreign aid which is fine I suppose but don't you think we should take care of our own first? Personally, I feci that some changes should be made in this area. But does anyone know how it can be done? Bcttye West, 6331 Table Rock road, Central Point, Ore. Editor's Note: Welfare as sistance varies according to the nerd of the individual, and sometimes facts are not known to those outside the family. If you have a particu lar case in mind, it might help to check with the welfare (rommission to sec if anyone is beiosj deprived of necessities, o 'Begin Anew' Has Berlin Settlement made it clear that there will be no Communist departure from the previous tough line on both Berlin and Germany as a whole. In general, Khrushchev de mands the end of West Ber lin's Allied occupational sta tus, a withdrawal of the 10,-000-man Allied garrison and establishment of West Berlin as a "free, demilitarized city" under international, guaranty. For Germany as a whole he has demanded either interna tional recognition of a per manent division in separate peace treaties with the East and West Germanys, or, pos sibly, a German confederation to be worked out by the Ger mans themselves and giving both East and West an equal voice in its administration. Unequal Vote The latter, in effect, would give the 18 million Germans of East Germany a voice equal to 54 million West Ger mans and provide a built-in Communist veto against any ties with the West, including NATO. To these proposals, Presi- CAN do - for we dare not meet the powerful challenge (if we are) at odds and split asunder." That sounds reassuringly like the spirit of Benjamin Franklin when at the solemn ceremonies attending the sign ing of our Declaration of Inde pendence he stood up and said to his associates in the draft ing of that immortal docu ment: "We must all hang to gether or assuredly we shall all hang SEPARATELY." TIE says: - "To those new slates whom we now welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colon ial control shall not have passed merely to be replaced by a far more IRON tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our every view. But we shall al ways hope to find them al ways supporting their own freedom - and to remember that in the past those who fool ishly sought to find power by riding on the tiger's back in evitably ENDED UP IN SIDE." That's a reference to the "smiling young lady of Niger who went for a ride with a tiger." Those familiar with the jingle will recall that "they came back from the.ride with the lady inside and the smile on the face of the tiger." There he's speaking lo the neutrals and some of our weaker-kneed allies who seem to think they can play along with communism and come out smiling like a rose. He is reminding them that it CAN'T BE DONE. rjF disarmament, he says: '-'"Let both sides formulate for the first time serious pro posals for INSPECTION and CONTROL of arms." There he's speaking flatly and directly to Mr. Kroosh. He's saying: "WE WON'T STAND FOR HIDING OUT ANY GUNS." TiO our neighbors in the Western Hemisphere and to the world at large, he says: "Let them - know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression ANYWHERE IN THE AMERICAS. And let EVERY OTHER POWER know that this hemisphere in tends to remain master in its own house." That's a declaration that the MONROE DOCTRINE STILL LIVES. TT IS an inspiring message. Our new President got off to a good start. WHAT of Ike? ' Kipling described it in his Recessional: The tumult and the shout ing dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice. An humble and a contrite heart. An humble and heart! contrite That's the Ike who was so often missing from his head quarters just before a big battle. In these cases, he was likely to be found out around a foxhole somewhere talking to Ol s who were due to go over the top in the grim ho'iis of the next morning. That's the Ike who for eight years has been the world s most loved and trust ed ruler. Never before was an American President subjected to such a barrage of propagan da designed to tear our coun try down in the opinion of the world's people. It failed be cause the world's PEOPLE trusted Ike. That's GREAT NESS. HapriY landings, old corn- rs'! -O dent Eisenhower said in March 1959; The United States will not "try to purchase peace by forsaking two million free people of-Berlin ," nor will it submit to any permanent and compulsory division of Ger many. President Kennedy's inau guration speech indicated that his administration will be at least as firm. Berlin, deep inside Commu nist territory, is not militarily defensible for long. If it really is to be guaranteed, it must be through reunification of an, independent, free Germany. This is the, problem that de fies solution and yet eventual ly must be solved. Washington Report By William S. White - G.O.P. NOT IDLE Washington -Plaintive voices now understandably ask, as though from the dark ness tf a deep well: "W hat are the Repub licans doing?" The answer is that they are not idle. They are neither shattered i n morale nor short on con structive plan White ning for other election wars to follow the one they have so recently lost. The onset of the new Demo cratic administration of Presi dent John F. Kennedy has not left the Republicans filled with stale bitterness or with the sole, sterile purpose of op posing anything and every thing the Democratic winners may now do, just for opposi tion's sake. The leadership of the G.O.P. has quietly passed from pri vate citizen Dwight Eisen hower to private citizen Rich ard Nixon and public citizen Thruston Morton. And the truth is that public citizen Morton - who is a Republican senator from Kentucky and chairman of the Republican National committee - has an affirmative plan with which he hopes to put the party on the comeback trail. TlfORTON'S policy - and it is also former Vice-President Nixon's policy - is to ac centuate the positive. With Nixon's approval, Chairman Morton is setting out to re form, not the Republican par ty itself, but rather the Re publican party's vote-getting techniques. He is giving the party faith ful an accurate summary of last November's election. He is saying to them that though, they were undeniably if nar rowly licked in the presiden tial race they have no reason to despair. He is pointing out that Mr. Kennedy defeated Mr. Nixon - but not necessari ly the r-e-c-o-r-d of the Eisen hower Administration. He 3 stressing that at the grass roots the Republicans actually made significant strides: a net gain of 21 seats in the house of representatives and two in the senate; victories in ten state legislative bodies against only two losses there; a gain of two governorships. A LL this, Morton rightly ar gues, does not mean that the G.O.P. lies dead. Nor do the presidential results of last November prove that the party was not "tough" enough and all that. What those re sults do mean, he is telling: the organization Republicans, is that the parly has a great deal of work to do in these areas: 1. The G.O.P. must find a way to enter "the practicali ties of big-city politics" - or, in blunter words, it m ust learn how to cut into the vast big-city vote given to Ken nedy. 2. The G.O.P. must develop a "security program" for vote counting on election day. This, in ordinary language, means Morton thinks the Republi cans were out-counted last No vember in too many places. This is a debatable proposi tion. For, speaking generally, wherever tho Democratic city slickers may give the Repub licans a fast count, the rural Republicans around the court house square will be giving the Democrats a similarly fast count. 3. The G.O.P. must get busy In registering its people and then in persuading them to go out to vote. The Morton pur pose here is, actually, to copy pretty much ihe urgent tech niques of such allies of She Democratic party as the big labor unions. qHIERE is nothing breath- lessly new and terribly dramatic In his program; but there is a great deal of sense in it. For melodrama in poli tics is for the theater - or for the birds. The problem is just to put one vote after another; and that is vhtt the new Nixon Morton ker.hip filmly pro poses to try to do. (Copyright. 11. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) G O 0
